ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,833, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Method and system for operating in-vehicle air conditioner" was invented by Shun Ota (Susono, Japan), Taro Hasegawa (Toyota, Japan), Tomoya Takeda (Toyota, Japan), Yuka Nishiyama (Toyota, Japan), Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan), Tatsuya Sugano (Sunto-gun, Japan) and Taizo Masuda (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an air conditioner installed in a vehicle is provided. The method includes a step of operating the air conditioner according to an operation instruction for the air conditioner when the operation instruction is rece...